This is such a neat example of someone performing smart (uses uncommon words/phrasing) without being smart or even really attempting to be smart (very easy to Google this.)
The FTC under Lina Khan has done things to help NORMAL people and prevent them from getting SCREWED over. Most people don't hear about this stuff, so here are some of the biggest wins and actions 🧵
OH MY GOD.
I have talked about this movie for YEARS, since they screened an in-progress version at Animation is Film.
I am begging people to check it out.
Pete Hegseth (Sec of Defense
- No experience at Pentagon
- No experience at large organization, or even medium size organization, or large budget management
- Militant christian nationalist
- sexual predator
2/
Thread of basically magical things it is actually possible to teach yourself:
(I definitely want to add to this thread, please send me more!!)
(Also if anyone has permanently improved their working memory plz tell me about it)
The US has 15 vaccines for kids <18:
MMR
DTaP
Pneumococcal
Rotavirus
Varicella
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis A
Polio
Haemophilus influenzae B
Meningococcal
Human Papillomavirus
Influenza
COVID-19
RSV
NOT 72.
Not 72 DOSES from birth to age 18 (it’s ~35)
Stop letting people lie.
I will never forget how the New York Times had to make a second map that excluded donations for Sanders to get a sense of how individual donor support was distributed amongst other candidates and the DNC ended up appointing the two least popular ones for two consecutive elections
The fact that Disney actually shelved that episode of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur at a time when LGBTQ+ and trans lives matter the most is deplorable. I know young children are gonna need this episode more than ever and it should be released cause trans lives matter.